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Eckersley, P. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-9048-8529, Flynn, A., Ferry, L. and Lakoma, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-2583-3813,
2023.
Austerity, political control and supplier selection in English local government: implications for autonomy in multi-level systems.
Public Management Review, 25 (1), pp. 1-21.
ISSN 1471-9037
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Abstract
Analysis of 60,000 contracts awarded by English councils between 2015-19 reveals that austerity constraints are a key predictor of councils outsourcing services to for-profit suppliers, regardless of their political control. Conservative Party-controlled councils are also more likely to contract with for-profit suppliers, although we found no link between Labour-controlled councils and not-for-profit suppliers, nor evidence that political or budgetary factors influence whether councils contract with providers based in their own region. We argue that centrally imposed funding cuts, and a belief that for-profit suppliers represent a cheaper option, could be overriding Labour Party councils’ ideological preference for not-for-profit providers.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||
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| Publication Title: | Public Management Review | ||||||
| Creators: | Eckersley, P., Flynn, A., Ferry, L. and Lakoma, K. | ||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||
| Date: | January 2023 | ||||||
| Volume: | 25 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| ISSN: | 1471-9037 | ||||||
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| Rights: | © 2021 the author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | ||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > Nottingham Business School | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 06 May 2021 08:59 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 18 Jan 2023 09:25 | ||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/42821 |
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